Carrie Moyer, “Façade Project,” 2004. Wheatpasted silk-screened posters, unique painting on plywood. 9 × 18 feet total. Installed at Triple Candie, Harlem, NY. February - August 2004. Referring to the long history of the political murals that dot the urban landscape of New York City, “Façade
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Figure 2 Spice Route Series , August 2016, installation of digital prints on silk, each 54 × 54 in. These silk prints depict the social history of plants, while borrowing from the aesthetics and history of mantones de Manila, which were silk shawls introduced as Asian luxury goods to the
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Figure 3 Spice Route Series , August 2016, installation of digital prints on silk, each 54 × 54 in. These silk prints depict the social history of plants, while borrowing from the aesthetics and history of mantones de Manila, which were silk shawls introduced as Asian luxury goods to the
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...Figure 2 Spice Route Series , August 2016, installation of digital prints on silk, each 54 × 54 in. These silk prints depict the social history of plants, while borrowing from the aesthetics and history of mantones de Manila, which were silk shawls introduced as Asian luxury goods to the...

... responds only to silk, jewelry, and furs. Males capable of taking a beautiful woman and enjoying her without overly concerning themselves with the context of—and contact with—shiny fabrics and bright colors, are becoming increasingly rare. The naked woman no longer pleases. Males are turning into jewelers...

... attribute to a fictional Marchioness in white silk pajamas and a full-length fur coat sitting regally in her chair surrounded by her gold-framed art collection displayed on Matisse-red walls? Because the artist deploys allusion and a mix of formal and conceptual strategies, questions arise from viewers...

...Carrie Moyer, “Façade Project,” 2004. Wheatpasted silk-screened posters, unique painting on plywood. 9 × 18 feet total. Installed at Triple Candie, Harlem, NY. February - August 2004. Referring to the long history of the political murals that dot the urban landscape of New York City, “Façade...

... spent weaving these silks and embroidering them with flowers in gold and silver threads. The churches of Cajamarca are theaters for ceremonies and processions, theaters of sensuality and of the sublime. Figure 2 The room of the Inca’s ransom Figure 2. The room of the Inca’s ransom Figure 3...

... specially developed fragrances and silk scarves. The Physical Ethereality of Fragrance , for Diamond &amp; Heist, for instance, is a glass-blown bottle that recalls Hirst’s Pharmacy installation and has a fragrance that evokes the cycle of life and death through patchouli and musty moss. Spunk , for...

... became possible to make the carbon rods part of a feedback circuit, sustained artificial lightning triumphed over its divine counterpart. Just one year later the carbon-arc light fell into a concave mirror and was projected onto a transparent silk screen serving as a fake sun for a performance of...

... rebellion against all figures of authority, usually gathered around a single one: the father. While it is undeniably true, as Silke-Maria Weineck argues in The Tragedy of Fatherhood , that “the only way to become a father would be to come to terms with the seduction of filicide” (2014: 193), it is not...

... the artists hold the text “PROTEST IS BEAUTIFUL,” made, in the form of an elaborate funeral wreath, from yellow silk flowers ( fig. 2 ). Both works are posed photographs. One is set in an open-air scene: grass and trees, a large park in summer; the other is posed against a bright-blue backdrop in a...

... such acts will result in an overall economic benefit by means of production increase. 2 The invisible hand of the market will continue to operate—and, in fact, operate extremely well—even when wearing jewel-studded silk gloves, provided that everything stays within the domestic economy. 3 The...

... is often frivolous in itself. Ascetic morality must condemn its excesses, but we cannot deny that it sometimes serves as a useful spur for a sizeable portion of frail humanity. There may seem no point in women wearing silk dresses, rare furs, diamond necklaces, and strings of pearls, or in having...

... partner, bringing goods from the eastern Silk Road to the Emirates via the Arabian Sea, through the Strait of Hormuz, into the Persian Gulf. With the founding of the new Emirati state, the movement of goods from India was expanded to include the importation of male laborers ( Ali 2010 ). By the mid- to...

... the new general supervisory form is the examination. The combination of supervision with punishment introduces what Foucault calls the “disciplinary society.” In lecture 12 (on March 21, 1973), Foucault analyzes the silk works at Jujurieux in France, which he identifies as a “factory-barracks-convent...

.... In the end, he decided to switch back to silks and zardozi 7 and limit chikan only to that which could be subcontracted. He left the village and never returned, and the villagers claim that he never paid their wages for the final three months. Without any written contracts, the whole theater...